Search

NAACP Legal Team

History & Achievement

Since 1909, the NAACP has maintained a legendary legacy for fightin g legal battles to win social justice for all Americans — many of the most significant of which were fought and won under the leadership of Charles Hamilton Houston and his student and protégée, Thurgood Marshall. Marshall went on to make even more history, serving as the 96th justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991 and its first African-American justice

The NAACP Legal Department maintains an active docket of Civil Rights cases, frequently in conjunction with a team of cooperating lawyers around the nation. These lawyers work daily in the courts alongside the Legal Department to address Civil Rights violations and forge the way in the fight to prevent the erosion of Civil Rights law across our nation.

Please note: The NAACP may provide legal information to concerned citizens, but does not provide legal advice. For legal advice, please consult a local attorney.

An official event of the "Year of Return, Ghana 2019," #JamestowntoJamestown is a spiritual, historical and reconciliatory journey in commemoration of the 400 year anniversary of the first documented enslaved Africans' arrival in the U.S. Register today at https://t.co/DrpcSjd2HV

Think you know what voting rights obstruction looks like? #WeVoteWeCount
https://t.co/73OHUOdYnq Read why one #Maryland resident says, “Voting isn't as easy as some make it out to be.” LINK: https://t.co/73OHUOdYnq

"We must DISSENT from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away...We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership."
~ Thurgood Marshall #QOTD